The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and other international organizations have called for investigating Monday’s mass murder of unarmed Palestinian protesters resulting from the Israeli army's use of excessive force to disperse them, killing dozens of them and wounding hundreds.

This came during a news conference held on Tuesday at al-Shifa Medical Compound by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor in which a joint press statement signed by 27 different international organizations was read by officials from the human rights group.

According to the statement, 59 Palestinians, including 7 children, were killed and some 2,771 others injured on May 14 alone as the Israeli forces used excessive force, including live ammunition to disperse unarmed protesters.

Accordingly, the death toll has now amounted to 108 citizens, while injuries rose to 12,291, and still counting. 300 of the injured are suffering from serious or critical wounds.

The statement also affirmed that all protests were, in general, peaceful in Gaza border area, while targeted protesters did not pose a real threat to soldiers’ lives that could justify their killing or the use of excessive force against them.

"It is true that, in some cases, protesters threw stones at the Israeli soldiers, attempted to cross the fence, or used Molotov cocktails. However, compared to vast majority of cases, these were limited. Also, none of them used or carried firearms. Given the large numbers of casualties, Israel’s use of lethal force is in no way justifiable. It is arbitrary and excessive."

"It appears that there is a deliberate intention to further complicate injuries of protesters, causing serious injuries that may lead to permanent disabilities."

The organizations, which signed the statement, called on the international community, especially the UN, to compel Israel to respect protesters’ right to demonstrate in a peaceful manner in the Gaza Strip, and to prevent its soldiers from using force when dealing with peaceful demonstrators.

They also stressed the need for "an effective and serious investigation by Israel regarding the incidents whereby excessive force was used against the demonstrators in the Gaza Strip, and the use of weapons that have caused unjustifiable pain, while holding perpetrator accountable for these crimes, and bringing them to justice.”

They called for “referring these cases to the Courts of Justice of the countries party to the Geneva Conventions, under the principle of universal jurisdiction, to look into the said crimes."

They also called on Israel, the occupying power, "to put an immediate and unconditional end to the blockade on the Gaza Strip," and "compensate all those who were affected by this blockade over the past years."

"The Israeli government must work seriously to end its long-term occupation of the Palestinian territories, allow the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes and compensate those who do not wish to return, as stipulated in UN General Assembly Resolution 194," the groups stated further.

Turkey on Tuesday expelled the Israeli ambassador in protest against Israel’s killing of dozens of unarmed Palestinians along Gaza border.

The Foreign Ministry summoned Israeli Ambassador Eitan Naeh and told him it would be "appropriate" for him to return to his country "for a while."

Along the same line, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of having the “blood of Palestinians on his hands" following indiscriminate killings by Israeli forces in the besieged Gaza Strip.

“Netanyahu is the PM of an apartheid state that has occupied a defenseless people's lands for 60+ yrs in violation of UN resolutions,” Erdogan tweeted.

Thousands of Palestinians have gathered on Gaza Strip’s eastern border since Monday morning to take part in protests aimed to commemorate the Nakba anniversary and protest relocating of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Since the border rallies began on March 30, more than 60 Palestinian demonstrators have been martyred by cross-border Israeli gunfire, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

urkish president Recep Erdogan has declared three days of mourning and called for a mass demonstration in Istanbul next Friday to protest the death of 58 Gazans by Israeli forces on Monday during border rallies against the relocation of the US embassy to Occupied Jerusalem.

“On Friday afternoon, we are going to have our mass gathering in Yenikapi Square. And in order to show our solidarity with our Palestinian brothers and sisters, we are going to hold rallies in Diyarbakir on Sunday,” Erdogan said while attending an event with students in London during his three-day visit to Britain.

“As the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), we are going to hold aid campaigns during the month of Ramadan for our brothers and sisters in Palestine,’’ he added.

Earlier, the Turkish president accused Israel of “state terror” and “genocide” after Israeli forces killed at least 58 Palestinians on the Gaza border and injured around 2700.

Irish premier Leo Varadkar has said his government is "profoundly shocked" at the death toll and scale of injuries that have been inflicted by Israeli forces on Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza.

Addressing the parliament on Tuesday, Varadkar said his deputy Simon Coveney, who is also serving as a foreign minister, summoned the Israeli ambassador to Iveagh House (the headquarters of the foreign ministry in Dublin) this morning to express the government's and the Irish people's outrage and dismay at these events.

The premier said Coveney directly requested that there is a need for an independent international investigation into what has happened, as the UN secretary general has called for.

He said the use of force must be proportionate to the real threat and these protests may not have been 100 percent peaceful, but there is no indication that the scale of the threat could have justified such violence and so many deaths."

He said live ammunition should not be used for crowd control and the government supports the UN security council's call for an independent investigation.

For his part, senior official of the Sinn Fein party Pearse Doherty spoke of the "terrible atrocity" where live ammunition was used against unarmed Palestinians in Gaza.

Doherty said that without adequate diplomatic response more innocent civilians would be killed in the coming days.

He said that Coveney should have told the Israeli ambassador to "pack his bags.”

The US at night thwarted a UN Security Council (UNSC) draft statement condemning the Israeli massacre in Gaza on Monday.

The draft statement, proposed by Kuwait, demanded an independent and transparent investigation into the Israeli crimes, and emphasized the illegality of transferring the embassy of any state in the world to Jerusalem.

The statement, which was approved by 14 countries and rejected by Washington, called on all countries, including the US, to abide by the UNSC resolutions on Jerusalem and its legal and international status.

The statement expressed the UNSC deep concern over the recent developments in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, with East Jerusalem included, and the loss of Palestinian civilians who were practicing their right to peaceful protest in Gaza.

It also asked member states to intensify their efforts to end the blockade on Gaza in accordance with the UNSC resolution 1860 of 2009, and called for sending urgent aid to Gaza to alleviate the catastrophic situation there.

Based on the Kuwait-proposed statement, any decisions or actions that would alter the status or the demographic character of Jerusalem are null and legally void.

For his part, the UN Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine Riyad Mansour expressed his regret at the US move and said that his counterpart at the UN headquarters in Geneva is seeking an emergency meeting of the Human Rights Council to start an independent investigation into what happened Monday in Gaza.

The US on Monday officially opened its embassy in Jerusalem stirring widespread anger. The Palestinians believe that this move is a prelude to full Israeli control over the holy city, including its eastern part which the Palestinians want to be the capital of their future state.

US president Donald Trump on 6th December 2017 recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announced his plan to move the US embassy in Israel to the holy city.

Washington had decided to open its embassy in Jerusalem on 14th May which marks the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba when over 760,000 Palestinians were expelled from their lands in 1948.

The Israeli army has killed 113 Palestinians and injured over 12,000 since the launch of the Great Return March in the Gaza Strip on 30th March to demand the right of return for refugees and call for ending a decade-long blockade on the coastal enclave.

The High Commission for the March of Return and Breaking the Siege appealed for urgent action to provide Gaza’s poorly-equipped hospitals with much-needed medicines and medical kit.

In a Monday statement, the commission appealed to the Ramallah-based Health Ministry, Egypt, and international organizations to urgently send medical staff, surgeons, and medicines to Gaza so as to save the lives of thousands of civilians critically wounded by Israeli gunfire.

The commission said dozens have been killed and hundreds injured in less than 24 hours, resulting in an acute dearth in medicines and medical equipment in the besieged coastal enclave.

At least 59 Palestinians have been killed and 2,710 injured after the Israeli military aggressively attacked marchers at Gaza’s border.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported, on Tuesday morning, that a child died from serious wounds he suffered, Monday, after Israeli soldiers shot him east of Gaza City.

The Ministry said the child, Adel Ibrahim Matar, 16, was shot with live fire, east of Gaza city, and remained in a critical condition at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza, until he succumbed to his serious wounds.

Also on Tuesday morning, a man identified as Omar Abu Fol, 30, died from serious wounds he suffered, Monday, after Israeli soldiers shot him, east of Gaza City.

Their deaths bring the number of Palestinians who were killed by Israeli army fire to sixty-one since Monday, including an infant, only eight months of age, identified as Laila Anwar al-Ghandour.

In the occupied West Bank, the soldiers invaded the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus, shot a child with rubber-coated steel bullets, and abducted a young man, identified as Mohammad Nubani, 23.

The soldiers isolated the village, preventing the Palestinians from entering or leaving it, and assaulted dozens of protesters marking the Palestinian Nakba, and protesting the illegal U.S. policies, especially opening its new embassy in occupied Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that a man died, on Tuesday morning, from serious wounds he suffered, Monday, after Israeli soldiers shot him during the “Great Return March”, east of Gaza City.

Medical sources at the Shifa hospital in Gaza said the young man, Omar Abu Fol, 30, was shot by live Israeli army fire, near the border fence, east of Gaza city.

It added that his death brings the number of Palestinians who were killed by Israeli army fire and gas bombs, to sixty since Monday, including an infant, only eight months of age, identified as Laila Anwar al-Ghandour.

At least 2771 Palestinians, including 86 women and girls have been injured by army fire; 1359 of them were shot with live rounds.

Updated: The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that Israeli soldiers killed, Monday, 58 Palestinians, including six children and four officers of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior and National Security, in the Gaza Strip, and injured 2771.

Among the slain Palestinians are six children, including an infant, only eight months of age, identified as Laila al-Ghandour, who died from teargas inhalation due to the army’s use of high-velocity teargas bombs.

Among the wounded are 122 children, and 44 women, the Health Ministry added.

The Palestinian Health Ministry reports that 1,204 Palestinians were injured with live ammunition. 79 were shot in their necks, 161 in their arms, 62 in the back and chests, 52 in their stomachs, and 1055 in their lower limbs.

At least 203 of the injured were reported to be children, and 78 women.27 of the wounded Palestinians suffered very serious wounds, 59 serious injuries, 735 moderate wounds, and 882 suffered light wounds.

Other injuries were as follows: three with rubber-coated steel bullets, 91 with shrapnel, 100 cuts and bruises and 737 suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.

The Ministry of Interior and National Security said the four slain officers were performing their duties and national services when the soldiers shot them dead.

The soldiers also caused damage to at least one ambulance and injured one medic and eleven journalists.

In addition, the Health Ministry called on Egypt to urgently send emergency medical supplies and specialists, mainly surgeons, intensive care physicians, anesthesia specialists, and to allow the transfer of a large number of the wounded to Egyptian hospitals, especially those indeed of urgent surgeries, since Gaza hospitals lack the needed supplies due to the siege on the coastal region.

Amnesty International (AI) on Monday condemned the Israeli army's killing of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.

An AI statement noted that flagrant violations of international humanitarian law have been documented in the coastal enclave and demanded an immediate end to these violations.

The organization also called for ending what it described as the "horror" caused by Israeli attacks, explaining that most of the injured protesters were shot in the upper parts of their bodies, which means that the Israeli snipers deliberately shoot at the Palestinians with the aim of killing them.

According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, at least 55 Gazans were killed on

Monday, including two children and two people with special needs, and over 2,200 were injured by Israeli gunfire.

Since the launch of the Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip on 30th March to demand the right of return for Palestinian refugees and call for ending the blockade on the coastal enclave, 97 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and over 11,000 injured.

55 Palestinians have been killed and more than 2,700 others injured alongside the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip on Monday protests.

Seven of the slain Palestinians were minors under the age of 18, including one girl. At least 203 of the injured were reported to be children, and 79 women.

According to the reports, 918 Palestinians were injured with live ammunition, 746 tear-gas inhalation cases, 98 shrapnel injuries, and five with rubber bullets.

Two medics and four security forces were also among the martyrs, while four medics and 12 journalists were injured.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered at the Gaza border since the morning heeding calls for mass rallies to protest the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem and to mark the 70th anniversary for the Palestinian Nakba.

The US on Monday opened its embassy in Jerusalem despite the widespread international condemnation and the Palestinian anger that has been escalating for months.

This came as about one million Palestinians were marching along Gaza's eastern border fence a few kilometers from Occupied Jerusalem. So far dozens have been killed and hundreds injured by Israeli gunfire.

The US had premeditatedly decided to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the day when over 760,000 Palestinians were expelled from their lands in the 1948 war.

The number of Palestinian refugees, who were replaced with Israeli settlers, has increased to 6 million around the world.

Of the 193 members of the UN General Assembly, 128 countries opposed the US embassy decision, including US allies such as France and Britain.

Israel occupied the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967 and declared the holy city, with its eastern and western parts, the eternal capital of Israel in 1980, a move which the international community refused to recognize.

About 140 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli occupation forces in the peaceful demonstrations launched since the US president Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017.

At least 55 Palestinians were killed on Monday after being deliberately targeted with Israeli gunfire during protests along Gaza's border fence with the 1948 occupied territories.

Throughout history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times and invaded and restored 44 times. The occupation was always destined to end and its true owners were to stay.

The South African government has condemned "in the strongest terms possible" the latest violence in Gaza.

The country has also withdrawn its Ambassador to Israel in the wake of the violence.

In a statement on Monday evening, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) said this act of aggression resulted in scores of Palestinian deaths, injuries and destruction to property.

"Given the indiscriminate and grave manner of the latest Israeli attacks, the South African government has taken a decision to recall Ambassador Sisa Ngombane with immediate effect and until further notice," Dirco added.

"As we have stated on previous occasions, South Africa reiterates its view that the Israeli Defense Force must withdraw from the Gaza Strip and bring to an end the violent and destructive incursions into Palestinian territories. South Africa maintains further that the violence in the Gaza Strip will stand in the way of rebuilding Palestinian institutions and infrastructure."

The routine actions of the Israeli armed forces present yet another obstacle to a permanent resolution to the conflict‚ which must come in the form of two states‚ Palestine and Israel‚ existing side-by-side and in peace‚” said Dirco.

It said the government also joined the chorus of United Nations’ member states calling for an independent inquiry into the killings‚ with a view to holding to account those who were responsible.

Israeli troops killed 52 Palestinians who were taking part in mass protests on the Gaza border on Monday, as the United States opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, including eight children under the age of 16.

About ten Palestinian journalists were injured by Israeli fire on Monday, while covering the Israeli aggression against Palestinian protesters along Gaza border, the government media office reported, according to Al Ray.

The office condemned, in a statement, deliberate Israeli attacks on Palestinian journalist crews while covering the Great March of Return.

He also said that journalist Rabee’ Abu Nqairah was suffocated with Israeli tear gas fired against Palestinians east of Rafah.

Maroof explained, in an official statement, that Israeli occupation forces deliberately attack Palestinian journalist crews to prevent them from covering crimes against Palestinian civil protesters.

He called for the formation of an international investigation committee to look into Israeli attacks against Palestinian journalists, calling to cease the membership of the Israel in all international forums concerned with the freedom of opinion and expression and defending the rights of journalists.

In praising their great effort, Maroof called on Palestinian journalists to carry on revealing Israeli crimes against Palestinian civil protests. He also stressed the importance of documenting Israeli crimes in order to file them with the International Criminal Court (ICC).